New NieR Game Entitled NieR Automata

Wednesday, October 28th, 2015

Share this page

Libra Sale!

We are proudly a Play-Asia Partner

SUPPORT OPRAINFALL BY TURNING OFF ADBLOCK

Ads support the website by covering server and domain costs. We're just a group of gamers here, like you, doing what we love to do: playing video games and bringing y'all niche goodness.
So, if you like what we do and want to help us out, make an exception by turning off AdBlock for our website. In return, we promise to keep intrusive ads, such as pop-ups, off oprainfall. Thanks, everyone!

The new Square Enix, Platinum-designed action game being released for the PS4 has been given a title, according to Famitsu. Previously having the working title NieR New Project, it has now been given the name Nier Automata. The game will be set in a post-apocalyptic world as a violent conflict exists between mechanical beings and the humans’ android ‘Yorha’.

Famitsu also provides a brief synopsis of Yorha:

Earth was invaded by machine life forms and humanity fled to the moon. On a defense base satellite orbiting the planet, Androids have been fighting the invaders in place of humans.

The machine life forms charge at them, but they are saved by the older androids who survived on Earth, “Resistance.” The members of Yorha and Resistance join forces in a do-or-die battle against the machine life forms…

Staff for the game currently includes the following:

Producer: Yosuke Saito

Director: Yoko Taro

Composer: Keiichi Okabe

Character Designer: Akihiko Yoshida

Designer: Yakahisa Taura

A release date has not been announced, but more information is expected during Paris Games Week.

Jerry Hrechka is a writer and journalist. He was born in the Catskill mountains and now resides in Georgia, still trying to work out how exactly that happened. His work can also be found on nerdstock.com as well as on his horror podcast 1001 Frights.